A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces
the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of
Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence
on bibliographic studies as a whole.
* The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and
authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic
studies
* Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s
texts, and a useful bibliography
* Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in
the field
* Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and
faculty
Table des matières
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
Note on Texts xi
Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? 1
Andrew Murphy
Part I Histories of the Books 15
1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare’s Time 17
Helen Smith
2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 35
Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier
3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays 57
Thomas L. Berger
4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71
Anthony James West
Part II Theories of Editing 91
5 The Birth of the Editor 93
Andrew Murphy
6 The Science of Editing 109
Paul Werstine
7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age 128
Leah S. Marcus
8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text 145
Michael Best
Part III Practicalities 163
9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice 165
David Bevington
10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings 185
Sonia Massai
11 Mapping Shakespeare’s Contexts: Doing Things with Databases 204
Neil Rhodes
Afterword 221
John Drakakis
Bibliography 239
Index 258
A propos de l’auteur
Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003), the editor of The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality (2000), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Scotland (2004).
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